Babehoven (or Maya Bon to friends and family) has shared the video for ‘Maybe I’m Bitter’ ahead of new EP ‘Demonstrating Visible Difference of Height in February next year. The stunning video has been directed and animated by transdisciplinary artist and Pataphysician Brin Gordon, who is currently earning their masters degree in Experimental Animation at…
Human Pyramids will release their third album ‘Power Pose’ on Christmas Day – and what a festive treat it is. Released by Three Mile Town worldwide and Ricco Records in Japan, the record might just be Axes man Paul Russell’s cinematic, orchestral super group’s most joyous collection of songs to date. Recorded all over Scotland,…
Quiet Lions have shared two live performances filmed by the Small Pond Recordings team in the middle of their hometown of Brighton’s legendary Concorde 2. The performances of the ‘Absenteeism’ album favourites ‘Field of Influence’ and ‘Epitaph’. ‘Field of Influence’ (below) finds the four-piece in fine form, harmonising and powering their way through a stirring…
LA rockers Cosmo Gold have shared a cover of Supertramp’s classic, ‘Goodbye Stranger’. Both the arrangement and lyrics have been reworked to capture the divisive nature of modern society (especially when it comes to politics and religion) transforming the song into something more foot-stomping with plenty of electronica running through – and irresistible flourishes of…
My Little Empire Records’ latest signing Alf Whitby (formerly of easykill) has shared ‘Lighthouse’ ahead of the release of debut solo album ‘Sistine Dreams’ early next year. Fitting nicely next to singer-songwriters including Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith, we also heard elements of Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe’s solo material in Alf’s delicate falsetto and the…
The brilliantly named Those Fucking Snowflakes have shared the video for ‘Vegan Sausage Rolls vs Gammon Faced Vampires’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘U Ok Hun? on 6 December (pre-order here). Following the equally angry ‘Stop Being Dickheads to Each Other’, this song finds the political punks rallying against the increasingly hostile, bitter…
The Big Moon have shared new single ‘Take a Piece’ ahead of the release of the album ‘Walking Like We Do’ on 10 January via Fiction Records. The four-piece have also announced details of a UK and EU tour in the new year following a support slot to Bombay Bicycle Club. Directed by Emilie Norenberg,…
Basia Bulat has shared new single ‘Your Girl’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Are You in Love?’ on 27 March via Secret City Records. Her first new material since 2016’s phenomenal ‘Good Advice’ album, the new record finds Basia once again teaming up with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. ‘Your Girl’ was written…
Soccer Mommy (Sophie Allison) has shared the Alex Ross Perry-directed short film for her epic 7-minute new single ‘yellow is the color of her eyes’. She has also announced details of a world tour in 2020, which includes a stop at the Electric Ballroom in London on 18 June. Sophie explains that ”yellow is the…
Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan has shared ‘Now That I’m Back’, the second single to be taken from her upcoming debut solo album, ‘Likewise’ (out on 31 January via Saddle Creek). An intimate song about the power and ever-changing and evolving nature of love, it opens with slow, stirring guitar before Frances starts pouring her heart…
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